{"id":14186,"date":"2011-11-10T14:29:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2011-11-10T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:29:56","slug":"assassins-creed-2-ep18-im-better-off-without-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14186","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 EP18: I&#8217;m Better off Without You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2jeIzLN04E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w2jeIzLN04E'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I found the gondola escort to be very unsatisfying.  It kind of reminded of a GTA mission, where your goals aren&#8217;t always clear and deviation results in failure, even when it shouldn&#8217;t.  The dock ends pointing directly at the boat, which struck me as a giant, &#8220;THIS WAY, PLAYER&#8221;.  So I was pretty miffed when jumping on board launched all of them into the drink. (Having said that, it&#8217;s pretty hilarious ito see it happen.) Later, I failed (or nearly, I don&#8217;t remember) because I got too far AHEAD of the boat, thus getting punished for being overly thorough and efficient.  Then when the gondola pulled into the tunnel, I continued to follow the platforming, and once again got too far from my target. I failed, even though the characters were now safely in their hideout and I had done my job.  All of this, and the entire setup of psychic guards assaulting the gondola on sight feels sort of odd. <\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of GTA missions, it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s piss-easy once you know what the pitfalls are.  When I fail, I feel like my goals or challenges weren&#8217;t properly explained, and when I win I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;ve really done anything impressive. I just failed until I did exactly as I was told. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah.  I know: <em>Animus<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I really, really can&#8217;t stand Rosa.  Reckless, bossy, short-sighted, irrational, unreasonable, arrogant. Gah. She&#8217;s like Miranda, only louder. I got mad when Ezio entertained her flirting. <em>What are you doing, man? Show some self-respect!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I found the gondola escort to be very unsatisfying. It kind of reminded of a GTA mission, where your goals aren&#8217;t always clear and deviation results in failure, even when it shouldn&#8217;t. The dock ends pointing directly at the boat, which struck me as a giant, &#8220;THIS WAY, PLAYER&#8221;. So I was pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}